Some watchmakers create huge fanfare when they release new watches, no matter how important or incremental. Audemars Piguet has become somewhat notorious over the last few years for quietly dropping releases, big and small, onto its website with no warning and no hoopla. Waking up today, I found that a totally new Audemars Piguet Royal Oak […]
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Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept Flying Tourbillon GMT
Announced in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of the Royal Oak Concept line, this is the latest expression of one of Audemars Piguet’s most wild watches, the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Concept Flying Tourbillon GMT . Never one to skip the chance to celebrate an anniversary, the Concept line was created as a special project […]
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Selfwinding 15550BA
Let’s skip the (entirely understandable) impulse to make AC/DC references and start with a little history lesson, instead. Thirty years ago, the folks at high-end Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Selfwinding released a beast—no, seriously, it was nicknamed “The Beast”—from the workshops of their Le Brassus headquarters. It was a cousin of the brand’s […]
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon
The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Selfwinding Flying Tourbillon Extra-Thin RD#3, reference 26670ST.OO.1240ST.01 (if you can keep 20-character alphanumeric reference numbers in short- and long-term memory, bless you, because I can’t) landed with maybe a little less impact than it deserved when it launched last April. There are probably several reasons why. First of all, I […]
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Flying Tourbillon Chronograph
Among the myriad releases we expect to see from Audemars Piguet this year, few are as anticipated as watches made to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore. The Offshore has always stood on its own as the unapologetically burly, often weird, and even sometimes unwieldy sibling of the Royal Oak […]
Audemars Piguet Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet Ultra Complication Universelle RD#4
Sometimes you get confronted with watches that need time to sink in. Watches that need a second and a third look. And after that, you put together the story with the images that come with them. And once you have done that, you still have to grasp the magnitude of what you have just witnessed. […]
Audemars Piguet CODE 11.59 Grande Sonnerie Carillon Supersonnerie Ceramic
In 1994, Swiss manufacture Audemars Piguet presented its first Grande Sonnerie wristwatch. In 2020, AP reintroduced the complication and has presented a trilogy in the Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet collection every year since. This year, the horology house launches three new models: Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet Grande Sonnerie Carillon Supersonnerie. They all showcase […]
Audemars Piguet Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet Selfwinding
Four long years have passed and the Audemars Piguet Code 11.59 by Audemars Piguet Selfwinding is still the new kid on the block, but it has grown out of its weird-looking bald baby phase. The core of the watch remains the same as what AP released in 2019; the Selfwinding houses the 4302 movement, and […]
AP Royal Oak Jumbo 16202 Grained Tuscan Dial
Following the release last year of an updated Royal Oak Jumbo Extra-Thin collection – the 16202ST, for the steel model – in the frame of the 50th anniversary of the brand’s iconic watch, Audemars Piguet is today releasing a new version that, visually, will feel familiar to fans of the model. If I say 14802PT…? […]
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Selfwinding 41 Replica
Designed by Gérald Genta (1931-2011) in 1972, the Royal Oak was the first steel luxury wristwatch. Over the past four decades, it has become the icon of the storied Swiss manufacture — Audemars Piguet. Located in the Vallée de Joux, and still in the hands of the founding families, AP sits among an elite few […]